On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Steve Dulieu wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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Anyway, as has been pointed out, th W&C is tube gauge, not mainline, so
would need to be widened. Visionless naysayers protest that this would be
impossible, but i demur - that's exactly what, i read in CULG, was done to
the City & South London Railway when it became part of the Northern Line.
They even did much of the widening at night, with trains still running in
the day! Until they hit a gas main and exploded it, anyway.

Errrm, of course you don't actually need to widen the tunnel at all. You
hand over the new extended line to LUL and they run it with tube stock...

This is true. However, it would be a bit of a waste of all that nice
wide-gauge line to use it for titchy little midget trains: bigger trains
have greater capacity and are a lot more passenger-friendly. This is
especially important if we're talking about running long-distance services
along this route, as Sir Benjy was.

tom

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